Austerity

Pouring whiskey in dried-out bodies

Coarsely hewn by wood and love

Deep inside them smolders slowly

Thick as yeast, green bitterness

Helpless, their eyes are blind

And all their thoughts are simple

Their ears are deaf

And all their songs are trivial

Their loves have gone sour

And all their looks are vacant

Their food is foul

The art they make lacks the challenge

All their minds are empty

All their thoughts are simple

All their songs and books are trivial

All their ears are deaf

Birds who once flew with passion

Now they're easily caught with bare hands

Locked in cages, learning their lessons

Bullets for the already-dead

Tasteless, our tongues are dumb

And all our speeches are hollow

Our minds are numb

And all our books are hollow

Our lobes are sour

And all our looks are vacant

Our food is foul

The art we make lacks the challenge

All our minds are empty

All our thoughts are simple

All our songs and books are trivial

All our looks are vacant

Birds who once flew with passion

Can easily be caught with bare hands

Locked in cages, learning their lessons

Bullets for the already-dead

Can you still see

The stars

The Sky

Then layers of grey?

They're fading away...

Can you still see the stars?

It's hard to think of the ocean

With the sweet stench of piss in your hair

Morning air still invades every wallpaper cell

Year after year after year

All these years those walls were empty

Curtains yellowed, now white of mold

Lardy plaster, the paint is peeling

From the ashtray: swathes of blue smoke

Corrosive waters

Black rain falls the seventh time

Unyielding minds of coal

Jaws open wide

They changed the beds

Yearly white sheets weeping like shrouds

This is the chamber where their god spent his final hour

Can you still the stars through layers of grey

Or have the city lights taken their place?

The stars are fading away

away

away

away

Eyes leap at the bait

We march in circles under Jupiter's sway

Eyes fall prey to the cheat

One more surrender and we'll suffer defeat